Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To make or become vesicular.
- adjective Full of or bearing vesicles; vesicular.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To fill or cover with vesicles; render vesiculate or vesicular.
- Having a vesicle or vesicles; formed into or forming vesicular tissue; vesicular.
- To become vesicular.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders; vesicular.
- transitive verb To form vesicles in, as lava.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to make
vesicular - verb intransitive to become vesicular
- adjective
vesicular
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb become vesicular or full of air cells
- verb cause to become vesicular or full of air cells
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Examples
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The usual plants recur with shingle and in sand, the chief is a _Santonica_, {349} a few novelties occurred, among which is a curious plant, with large vesiculate petaloid connectiva.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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The seed-pods are long, smooth, somewhat vesiculate, and terminate in a short spur, or beak.
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This septal pore cap, which restricts organelle translocation, can be of the vesiculate type, the perforate type or the imperforate type
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May 12, 2008